
E MAYFLOWER COMPACT 
AND ITS SIGNERS 

WITH FACSIMILES 

AND A LIST OF 
THE MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS 




1620 mm^^m 1920 



By GEORGE ERNEST BOWMAN 
Editor of The Mayflower Descendant 



In Commemoration Of The 

Signing Of The Compact 

2 1 November 1620 



/Raasacbuectts Society ot flSaigflowec DcsccnOants 

Boston, Massachusetts 
1920 



THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT 
AND ITS SIGNERS 

WITH FACSIMILES 

AND A LIST OF 
THE MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS 




By GEORGE ERNEST BOWMAN 

Editor of The Mayflower Descendant 



In Commemoration Of The 

Signing Of The Compact 

2 1 November 1620 



/nbassacbuBctts Society ot /llba^flovver Descendants 

Boston, Massachusetts 
1920 



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Of a limited edition of fifteen hundred copies, printed from 



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type, this is Number X/=wUO 



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This brochure has been prepared and published, at the personal 
expense of the author, in commemoration of the Three Hundredth 
Anniversary of the Signing of The Compact. 

A copy will be presented by him to each person attending the 
Twenty-Fifth Annual Dinner, of the Massachusetts Society of May- 
flower Descendants, on Monday evening, 22 November, 1920. 

All copies not reserved for personal distribution have been pre- 
sented to that Society to be sold, and the proceeds used in its 
publication and research work. 



Boston, Massachusetts 
21 November, 1920 



CONTENTS 

Facsimile of Oldest Known Copy of The Compact . . . Page 6 

The Mayflower Compact and Its Signers 7 

Mourt's Relation 9 

Facsimile of Oldest Known Manuscript Copy of The Compact io 

Bradford's History ii 

The Signers of The Compact I2 

Facsimile of page 15 of "New-Englands Memoriall" . . 15 

Facsimile of page 16 of "New-Englands Memoriall" . . 16 

Why Did Only Forty-One Passengers Sign The Compact? 17 

The Mayflower Passengers IQ 



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IN JMEIilCJ. 3 1 

in oncbody, and to fubmit to fuch government and go vcr- ^ 

nours,as we fhould by common confent agree to make and | 

chofc, and fet our hands to this that followes word for | 

word, j 

IN the name of God, Amen. We whofe names are vnder- 
written ,thc loy all Subieds of our dread ioverajgne Lord 
King I A M E s,by the grace or God of Great Bntaine^Franctf 
and /r^'/fjwfi King, Defender of the Faith, 6cc. 

Having vnder-taken for the glory ef God, and advance- 
ment of the Chrillian Fai:h, and honour of our King and 
Countrey, a Voyage to plant the flrfl- Colony in the Nor- 
therne parts of V 1 1\ g i n i a, doc by thefc prcients lolcmnly 
ficmutcially in theprcfcnceofG^iandoneofanotherjCove- 
nant^and combine our fclues togeiher into a civill body po- 
litike, for our better ordering and prefervationjand furthe- 
rance of the ends aforefaid } and by vertue hereof to en- 
ad;, con(litute,andir*me fuch iuU andequall La vi'cs, Ordi- 
nances, ads, con ftitutionSjofhccs from timetotimcjas fliall 
be thought mofl meet and convcnicntfor the general! good 
of the Colony ;vnto which we promife all due fubmillion 
and obedience. In \^itncl^e whereof we haue here-vnder 
fubfcribedour namfef .(f«/'<'(fW 1 1 . oiNovembcry\v\ cheyeare 
oftheraigaeofour ibveraigneLord KingL^ME i, o\£»g~ 
land, Fm»ce.,2V\^ Ireland i^i. An^oi Scotland s^- ■^rMO Do' 
Ttsino 1620. 

The fame day ^a foone as we could we fcta-fliore 1 5. or 
1<5. men, wellarn.ed, with fomctofefch wood,for wcliad 
none left ; as alfo to (ce what the Land was, and ^^ hat Inha- 
bitants they could meet wich,thcy found it to he a {inall neck 
ofLind5onthis!idev,herewelayisthe7?..7.andchefi!rthcr 
fidethe Sea ; the .round or earth, fandhils, much iiketbe 
Downcsin HolL/^ri, but much better 5 the cruH of the earth a 
S>its depth, excclientbbckecartli-, all wooded with Okcs, 
plnes.SirMTas, juniper Bi'ch,Holly,Vines,fomeAfli, Wal- 
nut ; the woodfor the moll: part open and without vnder- 
wood, fit cither to goe or tide in : at mght our people retur- 
C 2 ncd, 



THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT 
AND ITS SIGNERS 

Where is the original Mayflower Compact, with its forty-one 
autograph signatures ? 

How has the text of The Compact been preserved to the 
present day ? 

How have the names of the Signers of The Compact been 
handed dowm to us? 

The first of these questions cannot be answered, as I have not 
found, either in print or in unpubHshed records, any statement 
which indicated a knowledge of the location of the original manu- 
script of The Compact, after April, 1621, or even proved its exist- 
ence after that date. 

The only later entry I have found, which might possibly refer 
to the original Compact, is in the Plymouth Colony Records, under 
date of 15 November, 1636. In the record of a meeting of the 
Governor, Assistants and others, as a committee to prepare a re- 
vision of the laws of the colony, we read : "Now being assembled 
. . . and having read the Combinacon made at [Cape] Cod the 
11^'^ of Novbr 1620"; but there is nothing in this record to indi- 
cate that, when they "read the Combinacon", they had before them 
the original document. They may have had only an official copy 
of it. 

According to the Old Style calendar, then used by the English, 
the Mayflower reached Cape Cod Harbor, now Provincetown, 
Mass., on Saturday, 11 November, 1620, which was the same day 
as Saturday, 21 November, 1620, according to the New Style cal- 
endar, with which the Pilgrims had become familiar in Holland, 
and which the English government finally adopted in 1752. It is 
incorrect, therefore, to claim that the Three Hundredth Anniver- 
sary of the Signing of The Compact will fall on Thursday, ii 
November, 1920, as three full centuries from the date of the Sign- 
ing will not be completed until Sunday, 21 November, 1920. 

As the Mayflower Passengers had been forced by circum- 
stances to settle outside of their original grant from the Virginia 
Company, they drew up and signed, before they landed at Cape 
Cod, according to Governor Bradford's History, "a combination" 
which was "y^ first foundation of their govermente in this place". 

[Page seven] 



This "combination", which was called "The Compact" as 
early as 1793, was signed on the Mayflower, Saturday, 21 Novem- 
ber, 1620, New Style, by the forty-one passengers who were then 
of age and were free agents, and the original document, of course, 
remained on the ship until carried ashore at Plymouth. 

The Third Exploring Party, composed entirely of men, set 
out from the Mayflower, on Wednesday, 16 December, 1620, New 
Style, in the shallop, and on Friday evening, 18 December, they 
were driven into Plymouth harbor in a storm, landing on Clark's 
Island; on Saturday, "this being the last day of y^ weeke, they 
prepared ther to keepe y^ Sabath" ; and on Monday, 21 December, 
long celebrated as "Forefathers' Day", they landed and explored 
the coast. 

It should be especially noted that the Mayflower itself did not 
reach Plymouth until Saturday, 26 December, 1620, New Style. 
She left Cape Cod Harbor, for Plymouth, on Friday, 25 Decem- 
ber, 1620, New Style, but was driven back by a storm. The next 
day, Saturday, 26 December, she started again and reached Plym- 
outh the same day, just five weeks after she had sailed into Cape 
Cod Harbor. She remained at Plymouth through the winter, and 
in April, 1621, started on her return voyage to England, arriving 
there in May. When she left Plymouth, she must have had on 
board either the original Compact or an officially attested copy of 
it, but nothing has been found to determine which she carried. 

In brief, the original Compact was on the Mayflower, at Cape 
Cod Harbor, from 21 November to 26 December, 1620; then was 
at Plymouth until sometime in April, 1621 ; then for about a 
month was either at Plymouth or again on the Mayflower, on its 
return voyage to England. From this point the history of the 
original document is entirely unknown, and we cannot say with 
certainty that any particular person has seen it, since the departure 
of the Mayflower from Plymouth. 

The oldest copy of the text of The Compact, known at the 
present time, is that printed in "Mourt's Relation", in 1622. 

The oldest manuscript copy of the text in existence, as far as 
known, is in Bradford's History, written between 1630 and 1646. 

The oldest known list of the forty-one Signers of The Com- 
pact is found in "New-Englands Memoriall", printed in 1669. 

William Bradford and Edward Winslow are the only Signers 
of The Compact who are known to have left any written or 
printed statement about it. 



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MOURT'S RELATION 

The Fortune arrived at Plymouth, New England, in Novem- 
ber, 1 62 1, and began her return voyage in December. She carried 
back to England an account of the colony, written by William 
Bradford and Edward Winslow, which was printed in London, in 
1622, with the title: "A Relation or Journal of the beginning and 
proceedings of the English Plantation settled at Plimoth in New 
England". 

On the third page of the first edition of this book, which is 
commonly called "Mourt's Relation", we find the oldest known 
copy of the text of The Compact, and this entire page has been 
reproduced, in the illustration on page six, through the courtesy 
of the John Carter Brown Library, of Providence, R. L 

"Mourt's Relation", unfortunately, does not give the names 
of the forty-one Signers of The Compact. 

Bradford was Governor of the Colony when the Fortune was 
at Plymouth, and probably all the official records, including either 
the original Compact or an attested copy, were in his care, conse- 
quently he and Winslow, both of whom had signed The Compact, 
were in a position to secure a careful transcript of it, to include in 
their "Relation"; but, unfortunately, there is nothing in this book 
to show whether the original Compact had been sent to England 
in the Mayflower, was in Plymouth when the Fortune sailed, or 
was taken to England by the Fortune. 

I have not attempted to make a list of early printed copies of 
The Compact, my efforts having been devoted entirely to finding 
some reference to the existence of the original document; but it 
may be of interest to note that Samuel Purchas reprinted part of 
"Mourt's Relation", including The Compact, in "Purchas His Pil- 
grimes", published at London, in 1625. 



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BRADFORD'S HISTORY 

The oldest known manuscript copy of The Compact is found 
in Gov. William Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, the 
original manuscript of which is in the State Library, in Boston. 
This History was first put into print in the year 1856. 

In Bradford's handwriting, facing original page 4, of this man- 
uscript History, is a note, dated "Anno Dom : 1646", stating 
that he "first begane these scribled writings . . . aboute y^ yeare . 
1630" ; and on page 57 is a statement that the peace with Massa- 
soit, which had been made in the year 1621, "hath now continued 
this . 24 . years", that is, until 1645 o^" 1646. 

As Bradford's copy of the "combination", as he called The 
Compact, is found on page 54 of his History, it is evident that he 
wrote that page between 1630 and 1646, and probably it was much 
nearer to the latter date than to the former. 

The entire fifty-fourth page of Governor Bradford's History 
of Plymouth Plantation, on which is found the oldest manuscript 
copy of The Compact, has been reproduced in the illustration 
facing this page. 

It is not possible to determine, at the present time, whether 
the copy of The Compact in Bradford's History was made from 
the original document, from an official copy of the original, from 
Mourt's Relation, or from some unknown source. Bradford of 
course had access to all official records of Plymouth Colony, as 
already stated, but apparently it did not occur to him that the 
names of the Signers of The Compact would interest those who 
might read his History. 



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THE SIGNERS OF THE COMPACT 

The oldest known list of the forty-one Signers of The Compact 
is found in Nathaniel Morton's " New-Englands Memoriall", first 
printed at Cambridge, Mass., in 1669. 

Morton had been one of the 156 inhabitants of Plymouth, on 
I June, 1627, New Style, as shown by the Division of Cattle on 
that date, and he must have been personally acquainted with the 
sixteen Signers then living at Plymouth, as follows : John Alden, 
Isaac Allerton, John Billington, William Bradford, William Brew- 
ster, Peter Brown, Francis Cooke, Edward Doty, Francis Eaton, 
Samuel Fuller, Stephen Hopkins, John Rowland, George Soule, 
Myles Standish, Richard Warren, Edward Winslow. 

Three of these sixteen, John Alden, John Rowland and George 
Soule, were living in 1669, Alden and Soule at Duxbury, and 
Rowland at Plymouth ; and Alden, at least, was present, as an 
Assistant, when Plymouth Colony voted a contribution towards the 
expense of printing the "Memoriall". 

Morton had also been Secretary (at first called Clerk) of Plym- 
outh Colony for more than twenty years, when his book was 
printed, and he presumably had in his care either the original 
Compact, with its autograph signatures, or an official copy ; and in 
"The Epistle Dedicatory" of his "Memoriall", he wrote: "the 
greatest part of my intelligence hath been borrowed from my much 
honoured Uncle, Mr. William Bradford, and such Manuscripts as 
he left in his Study, from the year 1620, unto 1646", and "Certain 
Diurnals of the honoured Mr. Edward Winslow, have also af- 
forded me good light and help". 

It is certain, therefore, that Morton had ample opportunity to 
obtain an accurate list of the Signers, and it is unfortunate that 
he did not make any reference to the existence or the location of 
the original Compact. 

I have found no manuscript or printed reference to any list of 
the Signers antedating that given by Morton, and the fact that 
his "Memoriall" is our sole authority for the names of the Signers 
should be emphasized, because he does not state the order in which 
the names were affixed to the original document, and does not 
number the Signers. 

In the first edition of the "Memoriall", The Compact is found 
on page 15, with the names of twenty-one Signers at the bottom 

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of that page, in three cokimns, and the remaining twenty names, 
also in three columns, at the top of page i6. In the following copy 
the names are arranged as printed in the "Memoriall". 



[At the bottom of page 15 



John Carver 
William Bradford 
Edward Winslow 
William Brewster 
Isaac Allerton 
Myles Standish 
John Alden 

[At the top of page 

John Turner 
Francis Eaton 
James Chilton 
John Crakston 
John Billington 
Moses Fletcher 
John Goodman 



Samuel Fuller 
Christopher Martin 
AA'illiam Mullins 
\\'illiam White 
Richard Warren 
John Rowland 
Stephen Hopkins 



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Degory Priest 
Thomas Williams 
Gilbert Winslow 
Edmund Margeson 
Peter Brown 
Richard Britterige 
Georsre Soule 



Edward Tilley 
John Tilley 
Francis Cooke 
Thomas Rogers 
Thomas Tinker 
John Rigdale 
Edward Fuller 



Richard Clarke 
Richard Gardiner 
John Allerton 
Thomas English 
Edward Doty 
Edward Leister 



The first person to number the Signers seems to have been 
Rev. Thomas Prince, of Boston, in 1736, in "A Chronological His- 
tory of New-England"; but he distinctly stated that his list of 
the names was taken from Morton's "Memoriall". Prince ar- 
ranged the names in two columns, the first containing the twenty- 
one names at the bottom of page 15 of the "Memoriall", the 
second containing the names at the top of page 16. In each case 
Prince took first the seven names in the left-hand column, then 
those in the central column, then the right-hand column. The 
names in his own first column he numbered from one to twenty- 
one, and those in his own second column from twenty-two to 
forty-one. 

As we do not know either the shape or the size of the paper, 
or parchment, on which the original Compact was written, it is 
impossible to determine whether the forty-one signatures were 
arranged in two, three or four columns. Even if we had the 
original Compact before us, and found that there were only two 
columns of signatures, it would still be impossible to determine 
the exact order of signing; and it is also doubtful if we should 

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be able to determine whether the first signature was at the top of 
the right-hand column or at the top of the left-hand column. 

Nathaniel Morton himself probably did not know the exact 
order of signing, and it is unfortunate that Prince, writing sixty- 
seven years later, put numbers before the names of the Signers, 
because subsequent writers, supposing that he knew the actual 
order of signing, have followed his numbering, with the result 
that many persons believe they are descended from "the fourth 
Signer", or from "the seventeenth Signer", or from "the thirty- 
fifth Signer", etc., accepting as correct the numbers assigned 
by Prince one hundred and sixteen years after The Compact was 
drawn up. 

Through the courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library, of 
Providence, R. I., we are able to present herewith reproductions 
of the entire fifteenth and sixteenth pages of Morton's "New- 
Englands Memoriall", and these two pages follow, printed back 
to back, exactly as they appear in the first edition of that book. 



[Page/ou rteen] 



An.i620, New-Eng.lands Menmidl. 



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bv a genera! Confcnt from time to time be made choice of, and 
afftnted unto. The Concents whereof followeth. 

N the N,mecf Cod, Amen. We whofc Names |'j^p^;^,;J; 
■ are under-written, the LoyA Subje^s of our dread ,f ,i,c cov.r.:- 
^v>eraign Lord King ^ames, by the grace ot God of '!-^^Ji^- 
Creat Britain, France and Ireland^ King, Dtfendor of the 
Fditfh &^' Having undertaken tor tlic glory of God, 
and advancement of the Chriftian Faith, and the Ho- 
nonrof our K ngandCoumrcy, a Voyage to plant thQ 
firft Colony in the Northern parts of Firginia j Do by 
thcfe Preknts folemnly and mutually, in the prcfence of 
God and one another , Covenant and Combine our 
felves together into a Civil Body Poliiiclc, for our better 
ordering and prefervation, and furtherance of the ends 
cforcf-ud : and by virtue hereof do cna<rt,iConftitute and 
frame fiich juft and equal L3ws,0 dmanccsj Ads, Con- 
ftitutions and Officers, from' time to time, as (hall be 
thought moft meet and convenient for the general good 
of the Colony 5 unto which we promifc all due fubmif- 
fion and obedience. In witncfs whereof we have here- 
unto fubfcnbed our Names at Cafe Cod, the eleventh of 
Novemixr t\ti the Reign of our Sovtr:.ign Lord Ktng 
fimes, of EttgUnd, France and JrtUnd the eighteenth, - 
andof Scotland iht fifty fourth, AnnsDim, idiO. 

fdhnCa*vir. Sajnttil Fuller. Edward Ti'lj, 

fVH^iam Br^tdford. Ckriflcfher Martin. fohttTillj. 

EdreM-dH-inJloyv, mllamMfdlint, Francis Cook.. 

jyillAmByCfvfier. William H'hlte, Tkbmas Rn'Trrs. 

Jkac Allmm. ; Richard JVatren. Thomas Tlnk:r. ) 

Mil s Stanclifii John HowU'd. fohn RuitrdaU. 

phnAldi-ni -^ hiVenHofi^.^ Edward Fuller. 



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16 'H<:\v-]i\)o]ar\ds MfmorulL AnA6T.o^ 

John Turner. Dignj Pnrfi. Rich.jrd CUrk. 

Francis Eatcf). Thomas ml/um. Rich.irc\ G^rdtrur. 

Jams Chilton. Ciikn PP-i>:Jlow. J.,hn AlUrton. 

' J^hn Craxton. Tuimoyid Margffin. Thomas EngitpK 

John Billinqton, Ptur Brorvn. EdwArADotcn. 

Jofes Fleukr. Richard Bituridge. Edw-trd Lie(}cr. 

■ John Goodman. George SomIc. 

M:: TrhnCir. AfcM tliis, they thokUt.Jobi Carver, a man godly and 

vcyth:f,AGu wdl-approved amoiicft tlicm, to be their Governour for that 

7,.,r.y.^rj(,ri pf year. 

/vrAi'ji'ii.uih Nccefllcynow calling them to look out a place for Hibica- 
lion, as Well as the Mafter and Mariners imporcunicy urging 
them cliereunto ^ while their Carpenter was trimming up of 
iht'ir Boat, fixteen of their men tendred themfelves to go by 
land and difcover thofe neareft places -, which was accepted :^ 
and they being well armed, were fsnt forth on the fixceenth of 
jVezTrt/kr 1620. and having raarclied about a mile by the Sea- 
lide, they efpisdfive Indians, who ran away from them, and 
. they followed them all that day fundry miles, but could not 
come to fpeech wich them : fo night coming on, they becook 
thcmfelves to their Rendezvouz, and fet out their Sentinels, and 
rclted in quiet that night -, and the next morning they followed 
the I/iJuws trufts, buc could not finde them nor their dwellings, 
but ill length lighted on a good quanaty of dear ground near 
to a Pond of frefli water, where formerly the hidiens had plant- 
ed iKdiun Corn,at which place the)' faw fundry of their graves • 
and proceeding furtl)er, they found new Stubble wliere lyidiim 
Corn had been planted the fame year •, alfo they found where 
iaLtly an houfe had been, where fome Planks and a grea: Kettle 
was remaining, and heaps of fand newly paddled with cheir 
lunds, which they digged up, and found in them divers fair 
IkJim Baskets filled with Corn, fome whereof was in Ears 
t.-ir and good of divers colours, which feemcd to them a very 
goojlv fight, having feen none before: Of" wliich Rarities they 
co.k Ibaic CO carry CO their friends on Shipboard, Ijke as the 

Jfratlitcs 



WHY DID ONLY FORTY-ONE PASSENGERS 
SIGN THE COMPACT? 

Some years ago a speaker at one of the meetings of the 
Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants said that it was 
very singular that only forty-one of the Mayflower Passengers 
signed "The Compact," and stated that no explanation had been 
found for this apparent discrimination. As others have labored 
under the same impression, it has seemed advisable to state the 
facts very concisely. 

The voyage of the Mayflower ended at Plymouth, New Eng- 
land, and her passenger list contained one hundred and four 
( 104) names in all ; but William Butten died before Provincetown 
was reached, and Peregrine- White (William^) was not born until 
about the second week in December.* On 21 November, 1620, 
therefore, the number of passengers on board the Mayflower, at 
what is now Provincetown, was one hundred and two (102). 
Of this number, twenty-nine (29) were females, as follows: 
eighteen married women accompanying their husbands ; seven 
unmarried daughters with their parents ; three young unmarried 
women ; one little girl with Edward Winslow's family. 

Of the seventy-three (7^) males on the Mayflower, 21 Novem- 
ber, 1620, but forty-one (41) signed "The Compact." Why do 
we not find the signatures of some of the other male passengers? 
The question is easily answered. 

More than two-thirds of the thirty-two (32) who did not sign 
were under age, and their signatures would have had no value. 
There were seventeen (17) minor sons of passengers, one (i) 
minor nephew of a passenger, and five (5) boys who were not 
with their own parents. Therefore, twenty-three (23) of the 
males who did not sign were minors in the care of their parents 
or of other persons. 

Nine (9) males are still to be accounted for. In his list of the 
Mayflower Passengers, Gov. Bradford says: "Ther were allso 
other . 2 . seamen hired to stay a year here in the country, William 
Trevore ; and one Ely. But when their time was out they both 
returned." As Trevore and Ely were bound by a seaman's con- 
tract, which in those days was exceedingly strict, it is evident 
* Between 7 December and 10 December, 1620, New Style. 
[Page seventeen^ 



that neither of these two men was free to sign "The Compact." 
And it was not necessary that they should sign, as they could 
be controlled by their contracts, without reference to the later 
"Compact." 

All of the other males, seven only, are distinctly called servants 
by Gov. Bradford, and there can be no question that the terms 
of their contracts with their respective masters were such that 
they were not free agents, even if they were twenty-one years old. 
Their ages have not been discovered, and possibly some of these 
seven were too young to sign, even if they had not been servants. 

In brief, every male passenger, without a single exception, 
who is known to have been of legal age and also a free agent, 
signed "The Compact"; and every male passenger who did not 
sign it was either a minor or a servant under some form of con- 
tract which undoubtedly did not leave him free to sign, or which 
made his signature unnecessary. 



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THE MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS 



There were only one hundred and four (104) Mayflower Passen- 
gers. Every one of them is included in the two lists following. 
There were no other passengers. 

[The 50 P.\ssENGERS FROM Whom Descent Can Be Proved] 



John' Alden 
Isaac' Allerton 

wife Mary 

daughter Mary^ 

daughter Remember' 
John' Billington 

wife Eleanor 

son Francis' 
William' Bradford 
William' Brewster 

wife Mary 

son Love" 
Peter' Brown 
James' Chilton 

wife ■ 

daughter Mary' 
Francis' Cooke 

son John' 

[The 54 Passengers from Whom We Ca 

Bartholomew' Allerton Moses Fletcher 
John Allerton Richard Gardiner 

John" Billington John Goodman 

Dorothy Bradford William Holbeck 

(istwifeof William') John Hooke 



Edward' Doty 
Francis' Eaton 

wife Sarah 

son Samuel' 
Edward' Fuller 

wife 

son Samuel' 
Dr. Samuel' Fuller 
Stephen' Hopkins 

2d wife, Elizabeth 

son Gyles' 
(by 1st wife) 

daughter Constance" 
(by 1st wife) 
John' Rowland 
Richard More 



Wrestling' Brewster 
Richard Britteridge 
William Butten 
Robert Carter 
John Carver 
Katharine Carver 

(wife of John) 
Maid servant of the 

Carvers 

Richard Clarke 

^ Humility Cooper 

John' Crakston 

son John' 

Ely 

Thomas English 



Damaris" Hopkins 
Oceanus' Hopkins 
John Langmore 
William Latham 
Edward Leister 
Edmund Margeson 
Christopher Martin 

wife 

Desire Minter 
Ellen More 
Jasper More 
[a boy] More 
Joseph' Mullins 
Solomon Prower 



William' Mullins 

wife Alice 

daughter Priscilla' 
Degory' Priest 
Thomas' Rogers 

son Joseph' 
Henry' Samson 
George' Soule 
]\Iyles' Standish 
John' Tilley 

wife 

daughter Elizabeth' 
Richard' Warren ■ 
William' White 

wife Susanna 

son Resolved' 

son Peregrine' 
Edward' Winslow 

NNOT Prove Descent] 

John Rigdale 

wife Alice 
Rose Standish 

(ist wife of Myles') 
Elias Story 
Edward Thomson 
Edward Tilley 

wife Ann 
Thomas' Tinker 

wife ■ — 

son ■ 

William Trevore ^ , 
John' Turner 

son • 

son 

Roger Wilder 
Thomas Williams 
Elizabeth Winslow 

(istwifeof Edward') 
Gilbert Winslow 



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